Box Score It may have been dubbed Think Pink night, but the Waterloo Warriors' power play had the Laurentian Voyageurs seeing red.
The Warriors got goals from six different players – four on the man advantage – as Waterloo cruised to a 6-1 victory over Laurentian Friday night at the Columbia Icefield Arena in Waterloo.
Kain Allicock (Markham/) led the way for the hosts with a goal and two assists, while
Jeff Einhorn (Red Deer/) and
Chris Chappell (Pickering/) each added two points. It was a victory on and off the ice for the Warriors, as nine players and staff members had their heads shaved as part of the Warriors' Think Pink campaign during the first intermission. All told, the team contributed over $3,000 to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.
Mike Morrison (Hamilton/) was solid when tested in the Warriors net, making 22 saves for the victory. Charlie Millen hung tough in Laurentian's goal, making several remarkable saves while under siege early in the game. Millen got a mercy pulling after making 31 saves through 35 minutes, taking the loss.
The Warriors controlled play from the drop of the puck, but Millen's acrobatics held the game scoreless into the second half of the opening period. But After falling down two men for only nine seconds,
Justin Larson (Buckhorn/) blasted a one-timer to the top shelf to open the scoring. A quick Allicock wrister off of a faceoff win made it 2-0 only 49 seconds later, and Chappell scored a carbon copy of Larson's power play marker to make the score 3-0 after twenty minutes.
The Warriors kept the heat on and forced the Voyageurs into more penalty trouble in the second period.
Brett Mackie (Whitby/) knocked in a rebound goal on the man advantage, and
Riley Sonnenburg (Cambridge/)'s glove side laser past a screen finally chased Millen.
Luke Lynes (Washington/) finished off the Warriors scoring in the last minute of the second period when he beat new goaltender Alex Laino through the five-hole to make it 6-0 Waterloo.
The third period proved to be anti-climactic, as the Warriors aimed to take care of business in their own end of the rink. The only question left unanswered was if Morrison would earn his first career shutout, but a perfect far post wrister from Dylan Fitze ruined that with less than four minutes to play.
The Warriors will now look to extend their winning streak to three games when the Nipissing Lakers roll into town on Saturday night. Puck drop is slated for 6:30pm.
Notes: Waterloo went 4-for-8 on the man advantage, while Laurentian went 0-for-2…Forward
Anthony Tapper (Marmora/) earned his first point as a Warrior with an assist on Sonnenburg's goal…Waterloo had a season high 51 shots on goal.